{"id":3276,"date":"2008-12-31T09:35:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/31\/a-terrifying-picture-of-an-imaginary-world-that-will-never-come\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:35:08","slug":"a-terrifying-picture-of-an-imaginary-world-that-will-never-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/31\/a-terrifying-picture-of-an-imaginary-world-that-will-never-come\/","title":{"rendered":"A terrifying picture of an imaginary world that will never come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call me crazy, but\u00c2\u00a0even if I assume the great disintegration of the United States is about to occur, I don&#8217;t think <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123051100709638419.html\">this map <\/a>is ever going to come to fruition.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"466\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/disintegration2010map.gif\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The flaws are pretty evident.\u00c2\u00a0 Why does Canada want all of that?\u00c2\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t the European Union have to change its name?\u00c2\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t Mexico have its own problems &#8212; and if we&#8217;re going to go with the theory of us having a somewhat amorphous boundary &#8212; ala Illegal Immigration, why wouldn&#8217;t Southern California go to Mexico or &#8220;Mexican Influence&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Well, the good news is that China isn&#8217;t likely to be able to control a large mass of land off its mainland, and free of commitment to the United States, Cascadia can fight for its Independence.<\/p>\n<p>I think this Russian professor basically shoved masses of states every which way to nearest power sources, with no fundamental understanding of various dynamics.\u00c2\u00a0 Even on the terms of a Fever Dream, this fails.\u00c2\u00a0 And to think, this made the headline of Drudge a couple weeks back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me crazy, but\u00c2\u00a0even if I assume the great disintegration of the United States is about to occur, I don&#8217;t think this map is ever going to come to fruition.\u00c2\u00a0 The flaws are pretty evident.\u00c2\u00a0 Why does Canada want all of that?\u00c2\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t the European Union have to change its name?\u00c2\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t Mexico have its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}